R&B songstress Jewell, known for decades of work, including featured roles with N.W.A., Dr. Dre and 2Pac recently provided insight to one of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony‘s earliest hits. Jewell, who had worked on various Ruthless Records projects after meeting Dr. Dre in the alte 1980s, recently told DubCNN.com about “Foe Tha Love Of $.”
The song eventually appeared on BTNH’s debut EP, Creepin On Ah Comeup. However, Jewell claimed that Eazy E, Bone Thugs’ mentor, originally had recorded the song several years earlier Yomo & Maulkie. “I had been at the studio almost every day listening, recording, and hanging out with Ice Cube and MC Ren as they were putting the Efil4zaggin project together,” recalled Jewell of her Ruthless days. “I did the song for Eazy-E and Yomo & Maulkie,’For The Love of Money.’ For whatever reason, Eazy never put that particular song out until years later when he signed Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. What they did was take the rappers [Yomo & Maulkie], but they kept my voice and used the song as it was.”
Yomo & Maulkie released one album, 1991’s Are U Xperienced, on Ruthless. The song, as “For The Love Of Money,” was included, along with Jewell’s vocals.
Jewell’s self-titled album releases this week.
“Eazy R” lol.
lol, they stay slipping…
Seriously, who the fuck is in charge of editing for this site? It’s bad enough when a good percentage of the articles have typos,but putting Eazy R in a headline is just egregious.
lol nobody can afford editors any more…but apparently they are also too lazy to go through and say what they wrote out loud real quick to make sure it flows before hitting submit…but i guess thats way too hard…or something
Sorry guys, for the spelling mistake. If eazy R was important like say drake I would have spelled it correct. Thank you
screw you
“I had been at the studio almost every day listening, recording, and hanging out with Ice Cube and MC Ren as they were putting the Efil4zaggin project together”
Not that it really matters, but Ice cube was a long ways away from NWA when they were working on efil4zaggin. Shit he was gone before 100 miles n runnin
SO WHAT HE WAS GONE, IT’S EASY TO DELETE A VERSE. I WOULD BELIEVE HER BEFORE I WOULD BELIEVE YOUR SPECULATION, SHE WAS THERE.
it has nothing to do with deleting a verse. what this guy is saying is that it’s doubtful that she would be hanging out with cube and ren while they were Efil4zaggin together, because cube wasn’t involved in that project. they’d already been beefing for at least a year at that point
thank you sincerejk for your rational thought
THEM BEEFING DOESN’T MEAN THERE WEREN’T DONE SONGS THAT HAD HIM ON IT AND NEEDED TO BE RE-DONE. THEM TRACKS COULD HAVE EASILY BEEN THE ONES THAT DIDN’T MAKE THE FIRST ALBUM. THE ONLY REASON YOU’RE SAYING HE WASN’T INVOLVED IS BECAUSE YOU DIDN’T HEAR HIM ON IT. SHE WAS THERE.
SHE TOLD THE TRUTH I HAD THE CASSETTE YOMO AND MAULKIE UNDERGROUND CLASSIC….
and here’s the Yomo & Maulkie version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8SC5uZqUEE
so was Jewell ever credited for the Bone song?
Easy R?
WHO CARES!!!!!!!!!!!
BONES VERSION WAS WAY BETTER. THIS ARTICLE IS IRRELEVENT… WHY AM I TYPING IN ALL CAPS??!!!
WHO CARES!!!! lmao
Lool Eazy R wat a fail and shes telling the truth i heard the original song before on youtube
That girl Tasha from “The Thuggish Ruggish Bone” song is the only singer remembered from Bone’s debut album, so who cares about you Jewell lol.
Lol anybody else notice the text at the bottom?
“Jewells self titled album releases this week”
Bitch just wants some publicity
been knowing about this, old ass news. step ya game up DX, and who cares anyways??
standin on the corner straight slangin rocks awww shit here come the motherfuckin cops
Pretty pathetic article. It’s not an allegation, it’s true, proven, old news. Yomo & Maulkie’s album came out in 1991 and BTNH’s came out in ’94 – the ’91 album was first?!?!? FUCK!!!
ok, they was first and so what. i see they didn’t do anything after that and bone had many more hit records than that lil colab.
Eazy did the right thing with that track. That EP was/is the bomb, how they put it together. Classic.
Jewell should just get some better songwriters – always liked her voice, but why should I buy her shitty album?
damn yall she was there can she tell her story! damn…niggas gettin all emotional…
whoever wrote this article needs to go back to 6th grade and re-learn grammar.
sooooo it was a remix?
in Eazy’s voice……BITCH! SHUT THE FUCK UP! GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE!!!
This is old news. I been knowing this for hella. I knew this when the song first came out. My brother had the Yomo and Maulkie tape back in the day so I knew where Bone got the beat from.
this is not news…yomo and maulkie had a terrible album..the best part of that album was the foe tha luv of money instrumental…it was so dope eazy had to re-twist it